We know it’s Academy Awards time… But we have chosen to speak about ‘Les Césars’. Why? To once more praise the wonderful show of our dear...

It is so tempting to introduce this blog with a smattering of Spice Girls, or even a bailiff of Beyoncé, but I shall resist*. We've...

Leonardo, Leonardo, who recently won an Oscar-o. He's painted naked ladies, faked being a co-pilot and even lazed about on the beach...

John Kilbride of VIVELEROQ.COM writes a list of those nominated, any his thoughts about who might win each category. Friday February 12...

Dancers, bees, swallows, sharks, sword-swallowers, mermaids, stars: even first thing on a Sunday morning, the Matisse exhibition at Tate...

To judge by the publishers’ lists, dystopias are big literary business in France right now. Three 2015 releases propose different views...

Well, that didn’t disappoint. I booked Les Liaisons Dangereuses in some trepidation, though: not only is it up there amongst my favourite...

In the troubled times of the Oscars Debate about the lack of diversity in the art industry, Mustang’s nomination to the 88th Academy...

Ask most people to name the best-known French novel of the twentieth century, and they’d almost certainly come up with Albert Camus’s...

Yesterday saw the start of the 43rd Angoulême International Comics Festival. Wait, what is Angoulême? It's just a small city in the...